re0: PHY read failed

[John Kotrla]

this message is appearing hundreds of times. I don't use the device, so 
its more of a neatness thing but it also makes it difficult to use logs 
when this error pops up every single second.


It doesn't begin at boot, usually after a few hours. But if I do plug it 
into my router instead of using WiFi, it connects and works.


re0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x3656103c chip=0x813610ec rev=0x02 
hdr=0x00

vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'Realtek 10/100/1000 PCI-E NIC Family all in one NDIS 
Driver v5.728.0604.2009 06/04/2009 (Rtl8023)'

class  = network
subclass   = ethernet


any suggestions?

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Re: Install FreeBSD using Windows desktop and PXE

[John Kotrla]

On 10/24/11 04:29, Eir Nym wrote:

-- Eir Nym



On 24 October 2011 13:23, Eir Nymeir...@gmail.com  wrote:



✪

On 24 Oct 2011, at 11:10, Matthew Seamanm.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk  
wrote:


On 24/10/2011 02:18, Eir Nym wrote:

I want to install FreeBSD to my second box and I have only Windows 7
x64 desktop without CD drives.
1. I have access to remote FreeBSD server (via SSH) where I can make
custom FreeBSD installation in any format.
2. I know how to create TFTP/DHCPD/PXE server to boot loader and kernel.

So questions are:
1) Do I able to boot some minimal FreeBSD environment without NFS aka
embedded BSD to install fully functional environment? What things
should I do to boot up it?
How can I use Crunch/MFS_ROOT ??


You should be able to PXE boot FreeBSD and then mount a copy of one of
the install DVDs by NFS from where you can run the system installer.
That is, you mount the root filesystem via NFS while you're running the
installer.



There's simple tftp server for Windows with dhcpd features. But NFS server 
becomes available only in Windows 2008 platform.


In principle this should be enough for you to install FreeBSD locally on
your second machine.  This is quite unusual stuff, and probably not as
well tested as more orthodox installation mechanisms.

It might be simpler if you can install from a USB memory stick image.


I'm looking for USB image


I'm looking for USB image writer which works in Windows 7 to write raw
image to USB drive


https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer






2) How can I write it to Flash drive in Windows 7?
dd/flashnul/rawrite/rawcopy/etc are not working under this OS: it
blocks access to drives even administrative rights.


If you can boot the install media, then you aren't running Windows 7 any
more, and the restrictions imposed by that OS simply don't apply.

Cheers,

Matthew

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